Unity 4 Orphans’ fourteen-year track record of helping orphaned and vulnerable children thrive shows the incredible transformation that can occur when their holistic needs are met.
When children lack access to resources necessary to thrive, their lives are defined by insecurity and scarcity. By meeting their educational, emotional, and physical needs they can begin to imagine a life of abundance and flourishing. This Giving Season our goal is to raise $150,000 to help fund our holistic programs in 2025.
What Unity 4 Orphans Believes
Our organization is called to care for orphaned and vulnerable children and currently serves over 1,500 children throughout five countries in Latin America. Whether the children are experiencing orphanhood or multidimensional poverty, they need advocates and trusted adults to step in and give them hope.
Flourishing is available to the children we serve in every area of their lives. This means that young women decide for themselves when they get married and start their families in homes free from abuse, and young men grow into strong and kind leaders with great jobs that provide for their entire familial unit.
–Caitlin Snyder, Executive Director
Poverty is more than just physical, it affects the way a child experiences the world and the opportunities available to them. Through our in-country partners operating in 29 locations, we’re helping vulnerable children pursue their education and future career plans so they can break the cycle of poverty and raise healthy families one day.
End-of-Year Campaign to Fund and Expand Holistic Programs for Children
Unity 4 Orphans invests in a child’s life through vocational education (ESL) and tutoring as well as through nutrition, play, and shelter. We offer counseling to help children heal from and overcome past trauma. Relational consistency with trusted adults builds self-esteem and enables them to envision a different reality than the one they’ve seen.
We are standing on the front lines for the children we support and contributing to the solution for broken families, poverty, and forced migration. The need for what we do is so great, we are limited only by our access to resources. Our big ambitious goal is to give hope to as many as possible of the 1 billion children worldwide living in poverty.
–Paul Polakowski III, Board Chairman
Education for Change provides ESL and tutoring and presents pathways to better job opportunities and a more secure future. Through Healing 4 Change children can overcome potentially life-altering damage through therapy and counseling. To keep their bodies healthy and growing up strong, Nutrition 4 Change creates access to nutritious food and clean drinking water. These holistic programs are changing lives every day for kids who need it most.
Celebrating Stories of Transformation
The children we serve are each unique and our in-country partner network celebrates and fosters their strengths. From a talented young artist in Panama City to a remarkable student who speaks basic English after only four months, we look forward to introducing our supportive community to the children whose lives are changing thanks to U4O.
We want to be a bright light in the lives of these children and communities–not only to ease the burden of their current circumstances, but also to help them feel loved and cared for, and have hope for the future.
–Laura Fellows, Board Member
Transforming the lives of vulnerable children starts with providing for unmet needs and earning their trust. The stories we’ll share during our end-of-year series are true testimonies of the ways our programs and partners are making a difference every day. We hope that others will share in our mission and guide many more children to brighter futures in 2025!